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@uitrit giedre @anni @frn WILLIAM P. HASKINS, 0F MEDOTA, ILLINOIS.

Leners Patent No. 70,334, dared october 29, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN BALL-AND-SOGKET JOINT.

To ALL WHOM Ir MAY eener-:RN:l

' Be it .known thatl I, W. P. HASKINS, of Mendota, in the 'county of La. Salle, and State of' Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ball-andSocket Universal-Joint Shaft-Couplings; andI do hereby decla-re that the followingis a. full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in whichi Figure 1 is a perspective view, one socket being removed.

Figure 2 is an elevation and section.

Figure 3 is a. transverse section on the line :v :ug. 2.

The same letters are employed in all the gures to` ndicateidentical parts.

My invention consists in the mode ofsecuring the ball-and-socket joint-coupling. by pins and strips` of leather, so that the .coupling cannot separate. l

A A are the sockets, attached to the end of the respective shafts at A. lThese sockets have rounded cavities to receive the ball-eouplings B, their rounded heads B being inserted in the cavities, andthere fastened by pins D passing through holes C in the sockets, and-through the heads B. These pins are set at right angles to one another, s o that one ball should have a free vertical play in its socket, while 'the other has a like horizontal play. In order to secure the pins in place, another set of holes in each ball and socket is bored at right angles to the one through which the pin passes, through which a leather or other pliable thong, E, is passed, passing also through a. hole in the middle of' the pin D, and keeping all the parts united.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The mode of securing the parts of a holland-socket joint by means of a pin'passing through the socket and ball, and a, thong passing through the ball and socket, and also through the' pin, substantially in the mam.

ner set forth.

2. I claim the sockets A A, constructed with rounded cavities perforated by four holes, substantially as set forth. 4

3. `In combination with sockets constructed. as described, the double-headed link, substantially as set forth. In testimony whereof have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WM. P. HASKINS.

Witnesses:

AUGUST P. HnIsnNBAcn, Dann. Y. Lown. 

